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You're right, the ITTF has some democratic elements, but it is no democracy where minorities have the right to offend decisions of the majority against them. And is it democratic, when China's 1.300.000.000 people have only one vote and Liechtenstein's 30.000 have also one vote in the ITTF?
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Hey Martin, the ITTF is NOT a Federation of Players. The ITTF is a Federation of National Associations. So each national association has one vote. If the ITTF was an association of players, then each player would have one vote. We are more like the United Nations, and grouping of nations. So each nation has one vote. But at the United Nations 5 of the Nations have veto power. We don't have that. In any case, maybe the ITTF is democratic or maybe it is not. But the popint is that all decisions are made according to a process and according to a system that the membership itself established for itself. And this is what we follow. Maybe not a perfect democracy, but we do the best we can.
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How many votes were given for the new minimum friction rule, how many against it or is it a secret? I just want to know how many and which representatives have to be re-elected if I want to influence the decision.
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Regarding the vote of the friction rule, I checked for you, the result at the AGM was 92% in favour and 8% gainst the change.
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It's interesting that you mention the ball change in football. It lead to more unpredictable curves, so that the goalies made more mistakes since then. Maybe we should think about this in table tennis, too (irony).
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Football: I heard it was to make it more bouncy and lighter for more goals, of course the TV and spectators like more goals. I was just trying to make a point that all sports have changes to improve the game. But maybe the goalies are not happy now? But they represent only 1/11 of the team, so a minority - "my turn to be ironic" (but you are the Irony champion, i concede to you).
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And the change (I think you know for sure) was the two-color-rule. Since 1985 there had to be two different colors on the forehand and backhand sides of a racket. This was a direct (ok, 5 years, the ITTF was slower then) consequence of Hilton's success (by the way, till 1971 both sides had to be the SAME color).
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I thought that the change to the 2 different colours was because of the Chinese (Cai Zenhua, Chen Zinhua, etc., etc.) and not John Hilton? But in any case, at that time I was not in the ITTF yet.
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But I don't want to disturb the discussion any longer with my "unobjective" and "aggressive" opinion if the president doesn't want to talk about it any more (is this democratic, barracuda?).
In fact, I'm very happy about your open ears regarding our problems at the base. That's really an example how other leaders of organizations should be.
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You really to not disturb me, I am happy to answer your questions. And I thank you very much for your very kind words about me. I appreciate them very much. next time start your post with the kind words and then attack me, that is a better tactic (ironic again, I am learning from you).
Adham
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